This does not happen without a struggle and it does not last very long. The mind likes running the show and will do anything to stay in command. However, when the strategies of level 2C really kick in, it can't hang on and drops away. At least, until it can sneak back and hijack you again.
Level 2C is the point where you are on the cusp of moving from a mental awareness of yourself to a soul awareness. At this point you have the choice between "staying in your head" or "going with your soul."
Your soul has always been there to guide you, but your mind has an uncanny way of keeping control over you. Basically, it blocks your awareness of yourconnection to your soul by making sure your body cannot move into a position to connect to the energy of soul.
Structurally, your motion gets limited so your torso and ribs cannot lift and expand in a way that allows the embodied experience of joy, love, grace and ecstasy. In this restricted state, only mental concepts are possible. Fully experiencing these emotions takes you out of your mind and elevates your awareness. This is far too dangerous for the mind and its identity. Your neck and head get locked into positions that only allow access to the lower mental intelligence where the mind has installed all sorts of rules about who you are, what you are capable of and what emotions and feelings are allowed.
Your identity is only a mental concept. It is not real. It is made up in the mind from a series of rules about how you can act, think, feel, perceive, as well as details about your capabilities and shortcomings. This concept gets installed in your body right at the level of the spinal cord as it passes through the spinal canal. All the mental rules get installed as tension in the ligaments and discs so no feelings or experiences that contradict the identity can get through. The identity has a stranglehold on the spinal cord, making any thought of changing painful and nearly impossible.
Moving beyond this is difficult to think about. The mind will redirect you to all the reasons it is impossible. In NSA, we trick the mind by going through the body. We preoccupy the lower mind by getting it to focus on too many things at once. The upper mind gets intrigued by its ability to observe this strange identity thing it has constructed and the heart gets its chance to jump in.
In level 2A, we stretched a spinal gateway and expanded the range of emotion you could feel. In level 2B, we saw the birth of the somato-psychic wave and the dancing of two spinal gateways in a figure 8 motion. This proecupies the lower mind and the wave destabilizes the tension that anchors its rules to the spine.
In level 2C the two spinal gateways are dancing. The somato-psychic wave is moving through the spinal canal and clearing out any tension that anchors your identity to the spine. Your chest rises and your heart lifts, allowing you to connect to the experience the joy of being a soul. The mind drops away and the identity is useless for those moments.
It's a beautiful awareness to experience, knowing that who you are is not what you thought and that there are infinite possibilities from here. The soul draws you towards it. The mind cannot handle it so it jumps on the first chance it has to shut it down.
But once you have visited this place, you know what else there is and you look for ways to get back there. You start changing what you do and think. You find ways to make your life more supportive of that space you experienced in Level 2C and, much to the mind's dismay, you change! Doing this enough is dangerous to an identity and when you become a bigger and better you, guess what? Your old identity dies.
